Chapter Summaries

Lu Ran showed Old Master Jiang Dou that General Ha could wield a sword and had developed sword intent. Jiang Dou explained the difference between their sword intents and described the legendary realm of sword will, leaving Lu Ran and General Ha with a potential path to pursue.

• Lu Ran summoned General Ha and had him demonstrate the Gale-Draw Sword Technique to Jiang Dou and Senior Brother He.
• Jiang Dou criticized General Ha’s technique, but General Ha released sword intent that left Jiang Dou and the others stunned.
• Lu Ran explained how he had first taught General Ha swordsmanship for fun and later trained him seriously after becoming a Beast Tamer.
• Jiang Dou acknowledged General Ha and asked him to become his disciple, but Lu Ran declined on the dog’s behalf and asked Jiang Dou about sword will.
• Jiang Dou explained how sword intent strengthened different aspects of their swordsmanship and said sword will could turn a swordsman’s spirit into a weapon.

Lu Ran stayed at the Rainbow Sky Dojo and learned that a pet beast’s deepest needs could shape its strongest attributes after evolution. Seeing that Sudden Death King’s fear of dying had likely made him exceptionally defensive, Lu Ran wondered whether to develop him as a shield alongside General Ha.

• Jiang Dou invited Lu Ran to stay at the Rainbow Sky Dojo, and Lu Ran agreed; Jiang Dou arranged a room for him and discussed how Beast Tamers might revive traditional martial arts.
• Lu Ran took General Ha and Sudden Death King into the nearby mountains, where he told Sudden Death King to hunt for food and asked General Ha to watch over him.
• Lu Ran checked the beast-taming forum after Fang Lan told him it had new basic guides and found a post explaining that a pet beast’s inner needs could strengthen a particular attribute after evolution.
• Lu Ran connected General Ha’s strong learning ability to his past training and concluded that Sudden Death King’s fear of death had likely amplified his already strong defense.
• Lu Ran considered training Sudden Death King to serve as a defensive shield alongside General Ha, but worried that making the timid lizard a meat shield would be cruel.

Lu Ran learned that Sudden Death King had shrunk because it lacked nourishment, and he promised to feed it better once he could afford it. While walking with General Ha and Sudden Death King, he overheard three unusually intelligent squirrels discussing humans killing each other and commanding monsters, then ordered General Ha to catch them.

• Sudden Death King explained that it wanted tough scales so it would not feel pain, and Lu Ran considered how its defensive focus contrasted with General Ha’s aggression.
• Lu Ran found a forum post explaining that a pet beast might shrink during awakening when its Beast Tamer provided too little power, and realized Sudden Death King was malnourished.
• Lu Ran promised Sudden Death King that he would provide better nourishment after earning money, while the lizard continued eating grasshoppers.
• Lu Ran overheard three squirrels talking about people killing each other and ordering monsters around.
• Lu Ran told General Ha to catch the squirrels, and the three squirrels fled in terror.

Lu Ran discovered the buried body of a Beast Tamer in the mountains and contacted Jinling officials. Zhao Chen identified the victim as a target of Other Shore, an international organization whose members became Necromancers by turning their pet beasts undead and hunting others for their souls.

• Lu Ran questioned three squirrels and learned that two people had fought on the mountain, one had died, and the other had buried the body.
• Lu Ran found the burial site and called Little White Dragon, who connected him with his former supervisor, Zhao Chen.
• Zhao Chen arrived with Xiao Wang, confirmed Lu Ran's report, and took him away while Xiao Wang handled the crime scene.
• Zhao Chen learned that the victim was Tao Hua, a Jinling Normal University student whose roommate had reported him missing.
• Zhao Chen told Lu Ran that Other Shore was suspected of killing Tao Hua and explained that its members used undead pet beasts to hunt Beast Tamers and devour their souls.

Lu Ran accompanied Zhao Chen to the Jinling Beast Taming Tower while they pursued a Necromancer, then tested Sudden Death King's attribute. Sudden Death King awakened Lightning, and Lu Ran left considering how its defensive body might use electricity against anything that touched it.

• Lu Ran agreed to accompany Zhao Chen to the Beast Taming Tower and imagined learning necromancy so he could revive General Ha if it ever died.
• Zhao Chen left Lu Ran in a reception room and told him he could test Sudden Death King's attribute at an Attribute Stone.
• Lu Ran found Sister Hua teaching newcomers and brought Sudden Death King forward to test its attribute.
• Sudden Death King scratched the stone, which sparked and showed that it had the Lightning attribute; the frightened lizard then fainted, and Lu Ran claimed it was playing dead.
• Lu Ran thanked Sister Hua, returned toward the reception room, and considered how Sudden Death King could use its conductive body as lightning armor to shock anything that touched it.

Lu Ran met Manager Ying, a talking ragdoll cat and powerful supernatural being recruited to help catch the Necromancer. After recognizing his psychic talent, she invited him to observe the hunt and prepared to use her time and spatial skills to track and trap the killer.

• Lu Ran considered building Sudden Death King around defense and damage reflection before Manager Ying stopped him in the Beast Taming Tower hallway.
• Manager Ying identified Lu Ran as the person who discovered the Necromancer and criticized him for contracting a dog instead of a cat.
• Manager Ying revealed that she knew Lu Ran was a psychic and told him about other powerful psychics, including someone besides Gu Qingyi.
• Manager Ying introduced herself as a founder of the Cat-Eared Maid Café and invited Lu Ran to learn how Necromancers fought.
• Zhao Chen arrived and identified Manager Ying as the outside help, and she proposed reconstructing the crime scene with a Time-Type Skill before sealing the Necromancer's escape route with a Spatial Skill.

Manager Ying took Lu Ran to the mountain where the novice Beast Tamer had been buried and decided to use the hunt for the Necromancer as a training opportunity for him. After learning that capturing the criminal could earn him a large reward, Lu Ran agreed to help lure the suspect out.

• Manager Ying persuaded Zhao Chen to let Lu Ran accompany her, assuring him she knew Gu Qingyi and would keep Lu Ran safe.
• Manager Ying used Instant Teleportation to bring Lu Ran to the mountain behind Rainbow Town, then offered him a chance to fight the Necromancer while she provided cover.
• Lu Ran initially resisted getting involved with Other Shore, but agreed to try after Manager Ying mentioned the Crystal Coin reward.
• Manager Ying searched the mountain with her skill and traced the novice Necromancer, who was likely still in Jinling City.
• Manager Ying planned to use Lu Ran and Sudden Death King as bait, explaining that the Necromancer would be drawn to their seemingly weak souls.

Lu Ran lured a Necromancer into an abandoned residential complex and defeated him and his possessed Necromantic Tabby Cat with General Ha’s sword techniques. Manager Ying watched the fight and prepared to intervene, but Lu Ran asked her to check that the pair had survived so they could be interrogated.

• Lu Ran smelled a suspicious scent, and a skinny young Necromancer approached him and lured him toward an abandoned complex.
• When Lu Ran refused to go farther, the Necromancer attacked with a throwing knife, but Lu Ran deflected it with his sword.
• The Necromancer activated his Black Card’s teleportation function, but the escape failed, so he ordered his hidden Necromantic Tabby Cat to attack.
• General Ha knocked the cat aside with his speed, and the Necromancer then had it possess him to increase their power.
• Lu Ran gave General Ha the Windfall Sword, and General Ha unleashed sword aura that blasted the Necromancer and his pet.
• Lu Ran asked Manager Ying to check that the Necromancer and cat were alive so they could be interrogated.

Lu Ran and General Ha defeated a rookie Necromancer, and Manager Ying explained how Necromancers and Other Shore operated before awarding Lu Ran the reward. After learning that Gu Qingyi did not know Lu Ran, Manager Ying decided to investigate his background and consider recruiting him.

• Lu Ran and General Ha defeated the Necromancer, and Manager Ying called Zhao Chen to arrange for officials to collect him.
• Manager Ying explained that undead pets consumed souls, that Necromantic Revival could turn a dead contracted pet into an undead creature, and that Other Shore monopolized the skill.
• Lu Ran accepted Crystal Coins as his reward and later returned to the dojo after declining Zhao Chen's offer of counseling.
• Manager Ying called Gu Qingyi and learned that she did not know Lu Ran or consider him one of her people.
• Manager Ying ordered a black cat to investigate Lu Ran and General Ha, including the husky's origins before he met Lu Ran.

Lu Ran and General Ha cleared the Demon Cat Forest Secret Realm with an SSS rating, and General Ha’s sword-aura attacks pushed him to first place on Third Infinite City’s Extraordinary Pet Ranking. Their sudden rise stunned Beast Tamers and drew attention to Lu Ran.

• Lu Ran decided to use his newly revealed supernatural ability as a cover for his Divine Deer Antler and took General Ha to challenge the Demon Cat Forest Secret Realm.
• Lu Ran told General Ha to avoid the Windfall Sword and Divine Deer Pendant, and General Ha used wind swords and sword aura to defeat the Demon Cat Leader without taking damage.
• The Divine Pet Rankings announced that General Ha had taken first place after killing the level-10 Demon Cat Leader, shocking Beast Taming Plaza.
• Lu Ran and General Ha received an SSS rating and high-grade grass resources, though Lu Ran considered the rewards unimpressive.
• Fang Lan decided to train harder after seeing Lu Ran’s ranking, while Shopkeeper Ying wondered why Lu Ran kept killing cats.